Denso Corporation

Keisuke Hachisuka

Eiichi Okuno

Takayuki Shibata

Ryoichi Sugawara

Osamu Katayama

Makoto Ohkado

Naohiro Fujiwara

Itsuki Chiba

Ariya Terani

Ryo Kyung Lee

In a localization apparatus for a vehicle, a landmark detector detects a landmark from camera information acquired from a camera mounted to the vehicle. An associator associates the landmark with a specific set of radar information by setting an error region in which the landmark may exist, selecting, from a radar observation point cluster formed of a set of radar observation points corresponding to a set of radar information acquired from a radar mounted to the vehicle, a radar observation point cluster formed of a set of radar observation points included in the error region, and associating the landmark with the specific set of radar information corresponding to the selected radar observation point cluster. A positional relationship calculator calculates a positional relationship between the landmark and the vehicle based on the specific set of radar information associated with the landmark.

Localization apparatus and method for vehicle

A multisensory interface control method for a multisensory interface that includes a plurality of information transmission channels, each of which performing information transmission by utilizing one or a plurality of five senses is provided. The multisensory interface control method includes: estimating a user status indicating at least one of an emotional status and an attentional status of a user; setting weightings each of which indicates a degree of importance of a corresponding information transmission channel in accordance with the user status estimated; and changing allocations of a plurality of sets of partial content that configure content transmitted via the multisensory interface, the allocations changed in accordance with the weightings.

Multisensory interface control method, multisensory interface control apparatus, and multisensory interface system

A lock release apparatus in a vehicle includes a vehicle unit and a portable device, for an exchange of the first and second reference signals transmitted therebetween from the portable device through human body of the driver toward the right and left hands of the driver onto the first and second interfaces. The signals received by the interfaces are used to set the first and second determination conditions. At a time of a shift lever operation, an interface on a shift lever is used to receive the first determination signal for determining the first determination condition, together with the second determination signal from the other interface for releasing the lock of the shift lever.

Lock release apparatus

An electrode group is provided in a portable terminal carried by a human body for transmitting a transmission signal to the human body functioning as a transmission medium. The electrode group contains three electrodes arranged respectively at three vertices of an equilateral triangle. Three types of driving electrode pairs are defined as respectively having different combination of optional two electrodes. While changing the driving electrode pairs for use in order one pair by one pair, the transmission signal based on the same transmission data is repeatedly transmitted as many times as the number of driving electrode pairs.

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Nagoya, Japan

Keisuke Hachisuka